We all know the story of Kafka and Brod. Kafka, the tragic genius whose prophetic writings foretold the essential paradoxes and madnesses of the 20th-century and, so far, the 21st.… Read more »
Many critics have regarded Lars Iyer’s novel Spurious as a satire about a dysfunctional relationship between failed intellectuals. And so it is. But… for those of us who have been friends… Read more »
Linus Urgo, reviewing Lars Iyers’s Spurious at The KGB Lit Magazine, makes the excellent point that the noveldespite all its intellectual wrangling, vicious insults, paranoid esoterica, and apocalyptic comedy is essentially about…… Read more »
Once again we return with “The A to Z of Spurious,” our micro-encyclopedia of intellectual and not-so-intellectual topics discussed by Lars and W., the two endlessly chattering “heroes” of Lars… Read more »
“Two friends [Lars and W.] drink, walk in the English countryside, and talk (and talk and talk) in Iyer’s playfully cerebral debut,” says Publishers Weekly about Lars Iyer’s Spurious, which… Read more »
Lars Iyer, the author of our new novel Spurious, recently sent us a handy reader’s guide to his book. As way of introduction, he wrote: I hope Spurious can be… Read more »